Fall with the Robinsons

 A few weeks ago Gene and Pati brought Eloise and her friend Lucy to see us. It was beautiful weather, and everyone pitched in attacking the massive amount of leaves we have in our yard. We also went to Goshen Pass on the Maury River.

Gene is the master raker.

Eloise and Lucy sat on a picnic table looking at the river after E. fell on the rocks and cut her hand. There was blood everywhere. She is smiling in this shot with her hand wrapped, 

but she was not smiling earlier.  Those rocks are so slippery.

Pati, Gene, and Jack setting up the yellow tent. It is definitely camping weather.

This post is linked with Shadow Shot Sunday, Mellow Yellow Monday, and Mosaic Monday.

Look Up~Look Down~Look All Around

Some of the sights from our walk through Chestertown, MD, Thanksgiving Day.

SOOC

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Straight out of the Camera Sunday, Macro Monday, and Mellow Yellow Monday.

Start Your Week with Tulips

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers 
Iwhere I can walk undisturbed." 

~Walt Whitman

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Macro Monday

Mellow Yellow Monday
I Heart Macro

Daffodils Are Special Little Flowers

I used my new Kenco 2X TELEPLUS MC4 OGX Conversion Lens attached to my Canon 50mm lens. Sadly the Kenco will not work with my telephoto lens. It has to be used with a Canon - EOS EF. It is such fun to use.

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; 

the wise grows it under his feet.”  

~James Openheim

This post is linked with "Macro Monday" and "Mellow Yellow Monday."

You Are Beautiful

"The world is glittering with gold, and yellow streamers of sunlight wind through the tree boughs like God was throwing a party.”

~Christine Anderson

This post is linked with Texture Thursday and Mellow Yellow Monday.

Highlight Sunday ~ 12-11-11

Eloise, Daddy Gene (Right) and Uncle Ridgie

This shot, be it in black and white or in color, has to be my one of my favorites taken this week.. Having both of my sons here with my granddaughter if only for less than two days was the most wonderful Christmas present I could have received. My daughter was unable to come which was sad, but we will be seeing her and her family on Christmas Day.

This post is linked with Highlight Sunday at Tina’s Pics and Mellow Yellow Monday. 

Bits and Bigger Bits of Yellow ~ 11-20-11

 Roanoke Star City Half Marathon

Big Bits of Yellow

Little Bits of Yellow

The color yellow

It soothes my soul and spirit

Nature's gift to me

This post is linked with Mellow Yellow Monday.

Breezemont Bell

This is the old ship’s bell that hung out by our kitchen when we lived in Asheville, NC. It was used for calling the children in from the neighborhood for dinner. When we moved to Virginia, we brought it with us and put it out front in an old tree. This time the tree grew around it so it’s there to stay. Each day when I see it,  wonderful old memories are triggered of happy times past when the children were young free to run and play.  


It certainly is a different world they live in today, and I am frightened to think of what is ahead for them and my grandchildren. If it is this hard now for our families in 2011, heaven only knows what it is going to be in the future if the government - both state and national -  does not START thinking about ALL citizens, stop arguing, STOP thinking only of themselves and being reelected, and START doing something to help ALL of us. As a mother and grandmother, I am scared to death. I know what is ahead for me...that final act...dying...and I am ready for that one. No one knows what is ahead for them, but in my mind it does not  look good. I am not ready for that. It is just too heartbreaking.

"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.”

  ~Edward de Bono

This post is linked with Mellow Yellow Monday.

First Snow of 2011

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

For the first time in my memory we had our first snow on October 28th...unbelievable. It wasn’t much of one, but it left all of my few flowers, greenery, and water lilies weighted down with icy snow.  Just take a look!

My Yellows and Golden Yellows

My Reds

My Greens

A Lone Icy Red

A Bit of Blurry Pink

The Remains of my Herbs

My Wilted Water Lily and Goldfish Kettle Pond 

"Delicious autumn!  My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
  ~George Eliot

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Mosaic Monday

Macro Monday

Mellow Yellow Monday
Ruby Tuesday

Mr. Bug Eye ~ 9-19-11

Mr. Bug Eye Sitting on My Mini Sunflower

(taken with my iPhone)

The photos in this little mosaic were developed in an iPhone app called “iBooth.” It was the best 99 cents I have spent in ages. There are all kinds of funky and cool things you can do once you import your photo. These three are called: kaleidoscope, light tunnel, and swirl.

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.”

~Pablo Picasso

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Mosaic Monday,  and Macro Monday.

Mellow Yellow Monday ~ 9-12-11

 

Stella De Oro Daylily at End of Season


"I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.”
 ~Conor Oberst

Just A Different Point of View

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